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Any traction on a latest-n-greatest MacOS build? Beta 3.5.0?

www.indilib.org/forum/development/7950-kstars-3-5-0-osx.html

www.indilib.org/jdownloads/kstars/beta/kstars-3.5.0.dmg

Excellent, thank you. Now running 3.5.0 on macOS Catalina 10.15.7.

Any thoughts or concerns on Big Sur? Anyone tried it?

I upgraded to Big Sur and tried the current stable KStars on it with the simulators. All seems to work fine but I didn't do a very exhaustive test.

Yes, I am not expecting any issues with running KStars on Big Sur, since they haven’t announced too many changes except for UI changes, some new features in programs, and the Apple silicon support.

Also, for the time being at least, I don’t think there will be an issue at first with running KStars on Apple Silicon because Apple has built in Rosetta 2 to make sure all your intel code runs on the new systems. However, with the power pc to intel transition, eventually they took Rosetta away. So we can probably expect the same to happen here. INDI does require some driver binaries from manufacturers and these will probably need silicon versions. And for the KStars and INDI code, we can make universal binaries that will work on both systems, but they are of course larger.

Where we will run into some trouble is in the newest version of Xcode. I got some reports from folks trying to build using my script who said it wasn’t working with Xcode 12. I found that the main issue was that one of the build flags in the new clang distributed with that is by default set to treat an issue that used to be a warning as an error. This caused a bunch of problems with building open source libraries and programs needed for KStars. I am working through those issues now. I don’t think it will permanently be a problem, just a headache for awhile until I sort it out.

Loaded up Big Sur today and running KStars/Ekos now. No issues noted so far.

I'm seeing an issue with MacOS v3.5.0. Several times now, in the middle of an imagining sequence, I'll click on the Setup/Summary tab and Ekos IMMEDIATELY crashes and disappears. Have to start all over again. I don't think I have any logging turned on, and didn't grab the report generated (to send to Apple). I can look at the OS console logs if anyone thinks that'll help. Anyone else seeing this behavior?

Hi AirBourn,

Please don't send the reports to apple because we won't get the information at all. Try to send any crash reports to either the KStars Developers directly, post them in the forum, or send them as a KDE bug report. We can't get any information you send to apple, and honestly I don't know what apple would be able to do with it, since it's the KStars developers that would need to fix any bugs.

Also note that the 3.5.0 beta that I sent earlier was definitely in a rough draft form. We have made many changes since then. I just spent the last few days trying to make a whole bunch of changes to the KStars Mac build script to update it to work with Xcode 12. I am hoping to release another version soon, but there is still a Mac bug we need to resolve, where the File dialog disappears if you open it in the capture module while guiding.

Thanks,

Rob

I wasn't going to send to Apple at all - I can just grab them (it's a register dump, etc) if someone here wanted to see them. I've used them before.
Yes - I'm aware that 3.5.0 is Beta, and I'm the one that reported the File Dialog issue. I was just reporting this here because I thought that was the place to do it. Is there a better place? Like the GitHub page with the script that we've been discussing the XCode 12 build?

I have many many years of Mac development experience and trying to help. I have the OS crashlog of this event (three of them, actually) if someone is interested. Looks like it crashed in <code>QLabel::setPixmap(QPixmap const&) + 20</code>